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Efficient tensor network simulation of IBM's Eagle kicked Ising experiment

arXiv:2306.14887 · doi:10.1103/PRXQuantum.5.010308

Abstract

We report an accurate and efficient classical simulation of a kicked Ising quantum system on the heavy-hexagon lattice. A simulation of this system was recently performed on a 127 qubit quantum processor using noise mitigation techniques to enhance accuracy (Nature volume 618, p.~500-505 (2023)). Here we show that, by adopting a tensor network approach that reflects the geometry of the lattice and is approximately contracted using belief propagation, we can perform a classical simulation that is significantly more accurate and precise than the results obtained from the quantum processor and many other classical methods. We quantify the tree-like correlations of the wavefunction in order to explain the accuracy of our belief propagation-based approach. We also show how our method allows us to perform simulations of the system to long times in the thermodynamic limit, corresponding to a quantum computer with an infinite number of qubits. Our tensor network approach has broader applications for simulating the dynamics of quantum systems with tree-like correlations.

17 Pages. 11 Figures. Updated to reflect final publication version

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